Total Worry in a storm — the Fundraiser weather-venue crisis

texture · ~19-20 Nov YDAU (blizzard)

• When: ~19-20 Nov YDAU (2009), the blizzard that threatens the Québec exhibition/Fundraiser
• What: With the Québec junior squad snowbound at Dorval and the Fundraiser imperiled, Hal pictures Tavis at the HmH window "in leather slippers and Scotch-plaid robe, seeming to pace even when standing still," phones out to Logan, Dorval, WeatherNet, and Québec's O.N.A.N.T.A. office, "lips moving soundless as he brainstormed his way toward a state of Total Worry" (167). Stice's phone-message impression captures the mode: Tavis "wholly open, opening all different psych-strategies to the coach's inspection." The gala is relocated by Tavis and Schtitt (via Avril's alumni favors) to three chartered buses and an M.I.T. Student Union venue (183) — the administrator's finest and most anxious hour.